The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-30
Local and State Notes.

Local and State Notes.
The employees pay roll on the c.. l.. st. L. & G.
road averages $50. 900 per month the year round.
W. 3. o. Bostok, the agent of the g. R. & I.
| at Grand Rapids, has resigned. and is succeeded
by NJ T. Quaintancs of Petoskey.
The Wabash road earned the second week in
| September $l44 400 Increase earnings
corresponding week. 1885, of $32. 500.
The yandalia receivership case has been post.
poned until the 18th of next month, when it will
come up for a hearing before Judges Gresham
and Allan
The Chicago s. Indiana Coal road begins te
show handsome earnings earning in tho three
weeks. ending Sept p, 500 473 an increase over
earnings corresponding week, 1886, of $16,36
The retrenchment in vogue the Union
Pacific road has left Geo. W. Cowan. who repro
sented their passenger department at San Fran
cisco. out in the cold. His pay stopping after
Oct l.
Superintendent Turner, of the first division Of
the G., St. L. q p road, has given orders that
the station at Greenfield. Ind. be lighted with
batural-gas. Next week the piping necessary
will be put in.
Traffic manager Grammer, of the Evansville
& Terre Haute road. has made himself solid
with the theatrical troops by announcing that
they would be carried over that line at two
cents per mile.
G. W. Fairbanks attorney of the l., B. q W..
who has been in New York for some time past
looking after his Dayton & 1ronton interests
and the litigation hanging over the Chicago q
Atlantic road, returned last evening.
The Loeansport division of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen give grand ball on
THANKSGIVING eve. The members of the ~Eu-
reka the Indianapolis division of the National
Association have been invited to attend.
Train Dispatcher Woolsey's report shows
that Monday there were ei9hty-three trains
handled the Vandalia road. thirty-one Of
them passenger trains, and not an accident oc-
Cured to delay the movement of either train.
Until the arbitration of what shall be the
differential rates on passenger business east
Pennsylvana roads will sell tickets to New
York at S22. So Their three competitors at
$2l.50
NJ E. ingalls,, president of the c., l., St L. g
c. road. has become. 1t is stated. disguised with
pool traffic associations and everything of that
character. so little honor is there shown be-
tween the roads in such associations in the liv-
ing up to agreements.
J. n. Mccullough, first vice president, and
James McCrea. general manager. and E. A.
Ford, general passenger agent of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west of Pittsburg. have been West
the last two three days looking over matters.
Yesterday they were in Louisville
The survey of the route over which the Gin
cinnat Jackson & Mackinaw expects TO get into
Toledo over their own line is completed. and will
doubtless be adopted. At present their trains
run into Toledo over twenty-three miles of the
Toledo. Ann Arbor & North Michigan roads.
G. NJ. Hicklin. son of Col. VIM. Hicklin, of
this city. has been appointed chief contracting
agent of the A, L. d ) +. road at Kansas City.
But few years ago the young man was Office
boy in of the ticket Offices South Illinois
street. Now he commands a handsome salary.
The Central Traffic Association has not yet
been able to harmonize matters to such an ex-
that all roads in the association sell mileage
tickets only at $25 per one thousand miles. The
Lake Erie & Western is said to be the most
difficult road to whip into line. $40 still being its
rate.
p 2. Shelby has accepted the position of gen.
eral manager of the st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba road his salary to be S. 900 a year
LAC ~ rnaHi va
alton, and it is rapidly reaching westward.
Their tracklayers will this week reach Helena,
NJ. r.
The present month five passenger coaches re-
built and equipped with all modern improve
mants have turned out OF the Decline
shops at Brightwood. and the same number at
the Cleveland shops. This road is fast getting
its equipment into as good shape as any OF the
Western lines.
f. A. Laken has been appointed agent of the
c.. T., St L. g. C. at Stockwsll. The contract
to build new depot at that point was let and
the foundation has been put in. but the con-
tractor has now abandoned the work. Chief
engineer Morris thinks that the company will
now do the work.
movement is on foot to establish hospital
at Logansport. 1t is proposed that the city and
the railroads join hands in the charitable enter
prise. There is railroad point of as much
Importance as Logansport in the country which
has not hospital where sufferers can be taken
in case of emergency.
The terminal facilities which the Union Rail
way Company furnished the c.. l.. St L. g. G.
road in the year ending June 80. 1887, cost the
G., l.. St L. & c. sll6,122 o. This statement
includes cost OF transfers of their freight trains
the Belt road. which however. are handled
by engines of the c., l., St. L. e G.
The lowering the grade the l.. D. & S.
road for some distance, that they could cross the
Chicago & Indiana Coal road below the latter's
grade, is proving a valuable improvement for the
l., d. g. S. company, as their engines will haul
four more cars over the road than they could be-
fore this, the steepest grade On the road, was
cut down.
The old traffic agreement between the
Wabash, the U. p, the c., NJ. & ST. P. and the
C. R. 6 l. roads is about go to pieces and it
is thought for good The Union Pacific has
served notice that after Oct. il will demand 80
per ceRt. instead of As per cent of the from
it's eastern connections. and this undoubtedly
dooms the alliance.
Railroad litigation at Hamilton, O.. this week
lie at high tide. There is, to begin with the suit
throw the c., H. & d. into the hands of a
receiver, then the Pennsylvania Company has
three suits in hearing where questions of right
OF way involved and the c., L. 81 D. 10 hav-
ing a lively legal fight over the right of way
through portion of Hamilton.
The annual report of NJ. T. ingalls,, president
of the c.. l., St. L. &c c. road which appeared
in the Journal quite fnlly yesterday morning is
spoken OF In the most conmendatory terms.
veteran railroader, who knows good report
when he reads it, says that this road bids tair to
next year take its stand among the per
cent per annum dividend paving roads.
Rumors thicken that trouble is brewing
between President Adams of the Union Pacific.
and his new general manager, T. j. Potter The
latter persists in sweeping out ofhceholders
right and left, and his broom yocca sonally
strikes some favorite of the president. Only
last week twenty-five officials and clerks were
discharged from the general freight Offices.
President Galloway, of the Toledo. ST Louis
& Kansas City road, is this week making an in
by ex President J. N. Quigley. AS the election
of S II. Galloway president of this road mas ex-